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More UI Stuff(Posted 2009-12-06)
Alright, today i improved on the textfield Gadget. Now it works almost exactly like a regular windows textfield, the only thing its missing is the ability to highlight text as well as copy paste features. I also Got List Gadgets done, those were a little tough it pretty much consisted of a panel type a scrollbar child and then a bunch of sub button types as gadget items and hopefully soon i’ll get icons in there too. Here is a screeny of where i’m at currently.



and a demo

http://www.endsoflegend.com/vgluidemo.zip

http://www.endsoflegend.com

Another UI Update(Posted 2009-12-04)
Well it’s looking really good now. I added a taskbar gadget for minimized windows to sit until you need them again, Also i got Vertical and Horizontal Scrollbars working and completely functional. They pretty much work like any other scrollbar gadget just set the ranges and the bars will resize accordingly. I did however make sure the scrollbar button can’t go below its skin image’s lowest width and height. This will prevent the ui from crashing attempting to make a button that’s waaaaay too small. So even at some ridiculously high range it will still work just fine. The ranges also don’t have to start at zero it can be 36-23847239854 if you want it doesnt matter. 0-0 ranges will be treated as a disabled scrollbar. On other gadgets that will use the scrollbar as a child i may just make the scrollbar hidden until a range greater than 0 is applied to it. Here is a screenie of the latest works.



http://www.endsoflegend.com

UI improvements(Posted 2009-12-03)
Today I did a major reworking of the internal scripting on my UI, from the Front end it doesn’t look like much has changed. What I did was add some inherent skin capabilities for the UI. What this means is You can use multiple skinned UIs at the same time. Also I added some cool fading effects for closing and minimizing windows. I also just added the capability of moving the windows around with the pointer hadn’t gotten to that until today. And lastly which i just added was the ability to use custom fonts in the UI.




Here is the demo if you wanna check it out
http://www.endsoflegend.com/demovglui.zip

http://www.endsoflegend.com

Graphical UI(Posted 2009-12-03)
So i decided to break out a UI lib i was working on a while back and try to finish it up. Still have a little ways to go so far what's working is Windows, Panels, Labels, Close & Minimize Buttons, Text Buttons, and Textfields.

The UI is completely skinnable and customizable so that will be a cool feature to play around with when i plug it into the client.



http://www.endsoflegend.com